Should animal testing be legal or illegal? Animal testing in scientific labs can hurt the poor innocent creatures. I think that testing on animals should be illegal. I’m going to be telling you the different reasons why I prefer animal testing is illegal. “Animal testing is wrong and it is cruelty to animals. Each year about five million dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and other animals die in lethal dose tests performed in many states of the United States” (mega essays). Every year, an animal dies in an experiment in the United States. Can you imagine how many of these poor creatures die every day all around the world? Scientists and researchers cruelly experiment on the innocent lives of non-human animals. Animal experimentation is not only cruel, horrific, and heartbreaking it is also useless. “Ninety-four percent of animal testing is done to determine the safety of cosmetics and household products. That only leaves six percent for medical research. The saving of one life cannot be justified by the killing of another” (Stop Animal testing). During the lethal dose tests the experimental are forced into the animal’s throats, or pumped into their stomachs by a tube. This causes death by stomach rupture or from chemical dosage. Another way that animals are experimented is by injecting under their skin, often applied to the eyes, and inhaled through a gas mask. Animals are living, breathing creatures, similar to us that deserve to be treated with respect, and loyalty. Hundreds of animals die daily of scientific research. People seem to find this acceptable but if the same number of humans were to die at the same time, wouldn’t it be considered tragic? Animal experiments can be beneficial and help to find cures for some diseases. However, the number of successes is very small. It could be due to differences between species or due to illnesses that have been placed in the animals intentionally. Humans don’t catch diseases in that way. Therefore, it...

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Animaltesting started many years ago to help provide humans with information. The process of animaltesting is one of the most disturbing experiments in history. Many cosmetics and personal care lines are made every year and put into the market after being tested on defenseless animals. Almost every product has been animal tested at some stage in its development process. The website titled...

... Cruelty Involved in AnimalTesting
Hobbes, the cat, has been under experimentation for most of his life. This is probably the last time that he will ever have to be experimented on again. Why? Because he is probably not going to make it through this time. The makers of Herbal Essences are about to force shampoo down his throat to see what happens to its organs. Even if the cat lives through the process, they will have to kill it to see which organs were affected by the toxic chemicals. If this was an actual human going through this deadly experiment, people would be in shock.
Animaltesting started numerous years ago to help provide humans with information. The process of animaltesting is of great importance to scientists that work in testing for toxicity, in most cosmetics and personal care products that are made every year and are put into the market after being tested on animals. "Animals in Product Testing" stated, "...these products have gone through a long and complex testing process that leaves millions of animals mutilated, burned, poisoned and gassed in outmoded and unnecessary tests." From these different experiments, animals are often left with different diseases like Syphilis, Herpes, or AIDS ("Animal Rights: Animal...

...Is animaltestingcruelty or science? This is the question that many people ask to themselves, and is one of the many controversial topics in today’s society. In my point of view animaltesting is cruelty because animals can’t talk for themselves so they get kill and hurt, and we also violated their right by doing this. Anjo a member of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) said “Animals feel pain; they have a right to decent life” (Nancy Day 2000, pg.12). It is difficult to determine how many animals are used for research, but experts agree the number is declining. Research use animal for experiments because animals’ bodies often react in ways that are similar to the ways in which human bodies react. Animal research proponents say that almost every major medical discovery in the last hundred years has involved experiments on animals. “Jonathan Balcombre of the Humance Society of the United States estimates that between 15 to 20 million vertebrate animals are currently used each year in the United State and between 60 and 80 million are used worldwide” (Nancy Day 2000, pg.13).
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...Should animals be used for research? Isn’t it animalcruelty?
To test cosmetics, cleaners and other products, hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded and killed every year. In circuses, animals are being tortured cruelly. This has been an argumentative issue for a long time. Some argue testing on some animals now will prevent lots of human suffering and save lives in the future. Others say it is unethical and cruel. Still, everyone agrees that millions of animals are subjected to unbearable pain in labs. Also most of people agree with animals tortured cruelly in circuses, they take it as an entertainment for themselves. And that thousands of them die. Before 1986, only four states had felony animalcruelty laws.
Estimates say that between 14 and 70 million animals are used in experiments each year. It is impossible to know exactly how many animals are tested because US law does not require scientists report how many birds, reptiles or rodents they use. About 50% of animals used in cosmetics testing die within three weeks of the experiment. Snakes and lizards are skinned alive because of the belief that live flaying makes leather suppler. Kid goats are boiled alive to make gloves.
Animaltesting is often ineffective in...

...puppy? Over the years, animal abuse has increased an unbelievable amount. I believe animal rights need to be enforced to people across the world. Animals are helpless creatures that should only be making the world a better place. I will enforce my belief by explaining what animalcruelty are, animal abandonment laws, and how to report animalcruelty.
Transition: First, I am going to talk about the different types of animalcruelty.
I. When people hear the two words animalcruelty, many think this just includes hitting a dog. But these two words have so many different meanings.
II. Animalcruelty is broken down into two main categories: passive and active.
a. Passive cruelty is explained by cases of neglect, where the crime is lack of action rather than the action itself.
i. Severe animal neglect can cause incredible pain and suffering to an animal.
ii. Examples of neglect are starvation, dehydration, parasite infestations, allowing a collar to grow into an animal’s skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek vetinary care when an animal needs medical attention.
iii. Sometimes, in cases of neglect, an investigator feels that it happens because...

...saw someone hurting an animal? Most of you probably would not know what you should REALLY do. Good morning (afternoon) to Cik Nurul, and fellow friends. Today, we will be talking to you about animal abuse and cruelty.
I’m Darshini Preet; and before I go further, I would like you people to know that this presentation is mainly to educate the public and particularly young people, like you, to a sense of moral responsibility towardsanimals.
Okay, I shall begin by uncovering the “Part One” horror of cruelty against animals.
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Cruelty or abuse against animals is the infliction of suffering upon animals, other than humans, for purposes other than self-defence. More narrowly, it can be harm for specific gain, such as killing animals for food or for their fur.
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Specifically, I will discuss cats and dogs being abused, because they are the most abused domestic animals. Domestic means that these are types of animals you can have in your home.
Who in their right mind would abuse a poor defenceless cat or dog? Unfortunately, people of all ages abuse animals. This includes senior citizens, adults, teenagers and even children. Sadly, most animal abusers and killers are teenagers.
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...﻿AnimalTesting: a Vital Necessity
In order to save people’s lives animaltesting is necessary. 43% of adults in the United States say they are against animaltesting (Alas). Yet most the adults who say they are against animaltesting take medicine and use products that all have been tested on animals. The advances made from animaltesting have increased our biomedical technology significantly. Almost every breakthrough we have had has some part of animaltesting. Without animaltesting the alternate measures that would have to be taken would be unimaginable. Also the conditions of the animals are humane and commonly miss-represented. With all these benefits, I think it is very clear we need animaltesting.
Numerous people believe that animaltesting is un-necessary. Regardless, animaltesting is key in life saving treatments where, “Animal studies allow us to test potential treatments without confounding factors, such as prior drug use and other experiences that complicate human studies” (Proquest Staff). You can tell your family or friend who has suffered from and received treatment for cancer, strokes, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s or...

...AnimalTesting…Right or Wrong?
In the 1880’s, Louis Pasteur conducted one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease. Unable to see the organism that causes rabies with the microscopes available, he convinced a skeptical medical community of the microorganism’s existence and also the possibility of vaccinating against it. He did this by doing work on rabbits and dogs. In 1885, after much heart searching, he tried out his rabies vaccine on a nine-year old boy, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog. Thanks to Pasteur’s vaccine, the boy lived. (Hampson 1) The life of Joseph Meister and many others like him have been saved by animal experimentation. No matter how awful the idea of animaltesting may seem, the bottom line is that it has saved millions of lives. If animal experiments were to be eradicated, how many of our friends and family members will die of a disease that could have been cured if only animal experimentation were legal. Animaltesting should remain legal for medical research.
The British government has much more stringent rules about animaltesting. In 1990 the British association for the advancement of science created a declaration in support of animal experiments. It stated,...